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The universal passion

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Type of record: Book

Title: The universal passion

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt d/YOU

Creator(s): Young, Edward (1683-1765)

Additional creator(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other)

Related people: Swift, Jonathan

Publication city: London [i.e. Edinburgh]

Date(s): 1725-1728

Language: English

Size and medium: 114,[1], [123]-185 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273453

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018445019705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

A pirated edition.


In verse.


Signatures: A-O⁴ P1 Q-Z⁴.


Also published with title: Love of fame, the universal passion.


Comprises: "The universal passion, Satire 1-4, Satire the last" (pp.3-80); "Cadenus and Vanessa" (pp.[81]-114); "The universal passion, Satire 6-7 (pp.[123]-185).


Individual title-pages dated 1728 ("Satire 2,7"), 1725 ("Satire 3-4), 1726 ("Satire the last", "Cadenus and Vanessa"), 1727 ("Satire 6").


According to article by May in "Studies in bibliography", 1983, this item was published between 1725-27.


In the B.M. copy (defective, wanting all except "Cadenus and Vanessa") Swift's poem is followed by a list of books (1p., verso blank) "Just published and sold by Allan Ramsay". From this it appears that "Cadenus and Vanessa", no.8 on the list, was also issued separately. See Teerink 661.


Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem [by Jonathan Swift]: p. [82]-114.

Additional description

Bound with 2 other publications in volume lettered Satires . Volume contents: 1. Young, E: The universal passion , [c.1729?]. -- 2. Pope, A: The dunciad , 1728. -- 3. Bramston, J: The art of politicks , 1729. All of these are Edinburgh piracies

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